Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3

[Shannon]

Some feedback for Shannon regarding my experiences with 3.2 A. I've come across 2 possible resistance loopholes that I didn't experience on 3.1.

1) I've mentioned this before in this thread, some very strong feelings came up saying that the aura is separate from me, and the connections based on it are going to be fake and I'm just tricking girls to be with me. This almost made me quit. Also, I started to be ashamed of the aura being so strong, especially when my friends are around. I don't want them to think I'm hiding something from them and I was also kind of afraid of alienating them (by making them jealous or unintentionally attracting their girlfriends).

I guess these should be already covered by some self optimizing modules or with enough healing, but still it might be worth considering handling them explicitly.

That is your subconscious attempting anything and everything possible to get you to stop using the program, because it knows that unless you stop, you will eventually begin executing. What you are describing is handled explicitly in A side and B side. ASS/ART - the "anti-self-sabotage" parts. But I recommend A side for you.

2) This is about the energy sourcing. I've noticed that on 3.2 the aura (sometimes) only starts firing super hard core when I'm getting turned on by the girl. So for example by starting to fantasize about her, I can control to some extent how strong the aura hits her (their reactions make this pretty obvious). The only problem with this is I guess because of the stop masturbating module (which BTW does its job wonderfully) or because of another form of resistance, it's become very hard for me to get turned on by just looking at a girl (especially the days, even a week after I have a wet dream). It's as if as a form of resistance my horniness disappeared and I'm sabotaging the aura this way.

As if? That would be exactly what your subconscious is trying to do to again sabotage DMSI.

3) And finally, I understand that it's contrary to the original purpose of DMSI, but by nudging the user to take advantage of the opportunities created by the sub would make a huge difference. It just feels such a shame having all these wonderful opportunities present themselves only to let them slip by because of my incompetence or my unwillingness (fear?) to act on them.

I hope my feedback is helpful, you're definitely on the right track, the sub is already amazing, and it's really just a question of weeding out these escape mechanisms. Keep up the great work!

What good does training wheels do if:

A) they weren't producing the desired result anyway, and
B) they were masking what needed to be done to get DMSI to achieve it's goals instead of doing something it was never intended to do?

Your feedback is helpful. It is appreciated, as well, thank you.